24 dec. 2012

23 dec. 2012

X-mas came early to me!
Yesterday I got two packages from my buddy Mike from Blottoparts blog.
I have bought the last big missing parts for my bike. A 21 stepped star hub wheel and a old chromed Triumph ribbed rear fender!
I was like a kid on x-mas morning when I got my packages. had to rip them open fast as hell to put the parts on my mockup.
Funny thing was all mounting holes on rear fender worked on my Lebeef sissybar and the mounting to the oiltank.
And Beef: Mike says hi to ya!
I had a brand new avon ribbed tire to mount on the 21 wheel and now I can feel that im reaching the end of finding parts to my project.
I bought myself a set of 3 5/8 cylinders a while ago and in the beginning of next year im going to order a 4 ½ stroke crank for it. Looks like I might have this fucker running til summer!

18 dec. 2012

17 dec. 2012

A single shot from a BB gun may have saved one of the most historic 1932 Ford Deluxe three-window coupes in drag racing history from completely rusting into oblivion.
In 1954, Francis Fortman and Kenny Kerr decided to build a car for the 1954 World Series of Drag Racing, the first such event hosted by the Automobile Timing Association of America. The event was held at Half Day Speedway in Lawrenceville, Ill., about 20 miles from Chicago, none too far from Fortman and Kerr’s home. Other young participants included Arnie “The Farmer” Beswick driving a new Oldsmobile, Art Arfons in the Allison airplane-engined “Green Monster” and Fred Lorenzen in a Cadillac-powered Ford convertible.
Fortman and Kerr did not become big names like some of their fellow competitors that day. However, the 1932 Ford three-window coupe they built and raced for that event placed first in the A-B class with a 105.88 mph speed.
Champion barn find: Long-lost ’32 Ford was drag-racing star
Categories: 30's Cars, Editor's Picks, Features, Hobby News Tags: barn find, Coupe, deuce, drag racing, Ford, ford deluxe, three window, world series of drag racing.
raustin | December 11, 2012
Deuce was original champ of first World Series of Drag Racing
This 1932 Ford was built for the first World Series of Drag Racing, and after that 1954 race, it was parked and never run again.
Story by Angelo Van Bogart
Photos by Bob Chiluk
A single shot from a BB gun may have saved one of the most historic 1932 Ford Deluxe three-window coupes in drag racing history from completely rusting into oblivion.
In 1954, Francis Fortman and Kenny Kerr decided to build a car for the 1954 World Series of Drag Racing, the first such event hosted by the Automobile Timing Association of America. The event was held at Half Day Speedway in Lawrenceville, Ill., about 20 miles from Chicago, none too far from Fortman and Kerr’s home. Other young participants included Arnie “The Farmer” Beswick driving a new Oldsmobile, Art Arfons in the Allison airplane-engined “Green Monster” and Fred Lorenzen in a Cadillac-powered Ford convertible.
Fortman and Kerr did not become big names like some of their fellow competitors that day. However, the 1932 Ford three-window coupe they built and raced for that event placed first in the A-B class with a 105.88 mph speed.
Surviving pictures show the ’32 Ford at the 1954 World Series of Drag Racing. The car placed first in the A-B class with a time of 105.88 mph.
After that day of racing, Fortman and Kerr hung up their helmets and parked the Deuce for good. As driver, Kerr took home the trophy from the track. As the builder, Fortman took home the Deuce as his own trophy. He then parked the car outside until fate intervened and the car became a bona fide barn find in 2012.
“[Fortman] told me a ’32 Ford race car was worth nothing in 1954, so instead of selling it, he put it in a field and put a tarp on it,” said Ken Robins, the 1932 Ford’s new owner. “So it spent 20 years under this tarp until one day, kids were shooting the windshield with a BB gun, so he put it in the barn. But from the day he brought it home in 1954 to the day I bought it, it was never touched or started.”
The Deuce Robins bought in the summer of 2012 is the ’32 every hot rodder dreams of finding or building in their head while lying awake at night. The car is a simple, purpose-built car with several period go-fast tricks, and the fact it’s based on one of the rodding world’s most lusted-after cars is pure luck.
“He was just looking for a good car to race and it just so happened he found a ’32 three-window,” Robins said.
“[Fortman] owned a frame repair shop in Chicago and Kenny Kerr came to him and said, ‘Why don’t we have fun and build a drag car?’ Fortman was reluctant, but he said OK.
“[Fortman] purchased the car in Chicago, made a deal and put down a deposit and when he came back, he found the seller had taken the radiator out of it. He got back in his car because he told him he wasn’t going to buy it without a radiator, but he reluctantly went back and bought the car.”
The car was brought back to Kerr’s shop, where it was channeled over the original frame. An alcohol-burning flathead Ford engine with four Strombergs was mated to a stock Ford three-speed crash box that led to a standard 1940s Ford rear axle welded to make it a “locker.”
The car had other modifications standard to hot rods of the day: a 1940 Ford steering wheel and a filled roof and cowl vent, a rollbar, custom interior door panels, and a metallic red spray job with a white-painted grille insert and firewall. It was a race car, however, so a rollbar was installed and the deck lid was secured using screws. A hand-operated fuel pump and fuel tank were installed in the passenger compartment, next to the single driver’s bombardier seat obtained from a salvage yard.
“I would never restore this car. It should be untouched, because if it is restored, it’s just another ’32 Ford,” Robins said. “Where are you going to find a car from the first World Series of Drag Racing?
“It is more of a piece of Americana and artwork and hot rod history than it is a car.”

14 dec. 2012

13 dec. 2012

Just before I went to US of A to pick up my 1932 roadster , my mom gave me a sign she had found: If you can dream it you can do it.
I felt proud that my mom believes in me as I buy all these "toys" for grown ups.

During my visit in the states with my dad , I brought him out to El Mirage to see some real hotrod racing! Then he gave me a license plate fram from the S.C.T.A. merch booth.

So a day ago I combined these two gifts and now it´s over my work bench in the garage.

Now both my mom and dad are with me during the time I spend working on my harley´s and Ford´s.
Thanks for believe in me and my hobby!

9 dec. 2012

Took a visit to Mathias "LeBeef" yesterday for a cup of coffie and see whats going on in his shop.
I had to buy some parts while I was there for my chopper project.
I ended up with a LeBeef ratchet jockey shifter and a seat spring mounts.
And ofcourse a new trucker hat!
allways good to take a visit here, This guy knows what he is doing!
Take a look at his website:
http://www.lebeefkustoms.com/wp/

7 dec. 2012

The attack on Pearl Harbor (called Hawaii Operation or Operation AI by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters (Operation Z in planning) and the Battle of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 (December 8 in Japan).
The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States.
The base was attacked by 353 Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo planes in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers.
All eight U.S. Navy battleships were damaged, with four being sunk. Of these eight damaged, two were raised, and with four repaired, six battleships returned to service later in the war. The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship, and one minelayer.
188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed.
2,402 Americans were killed and 1,282 wounded.
Important base installations such as the power station, shipyard, maintenance, and fuel and torpedo storage facilities, as well as the submarine piers and headquarters building (also home of the intelligence section) were not attacked. Japanese losses were light: 29 aircraft and five midget submarines lost, and 65 servicemen killed or wounded.

6 dec. 2012

Winther has reached Sweden and it looks like the season is over for this year.
This awsome picture of Corner´s knucklehead out in the snow makes you wanna bring that Knuckle inside in your warm garage.